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We must invest in tomorrow. And pay our teachers for teaching as we pay our coaches for coaching.

Nikki Giovanni

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Nikki Giovanni
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: June 7
Poet
Teacher
Writer
Knoxville
Tennessee
Yolande Cornelia Giovanni
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Coaching
Teachers
Coaches
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Tomorrow
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Favorite poems are like favorite children. We definitely have them but we never tell as the others would have their feelings hurt.
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Some say we are responsible for those we love. Others know we are responsible for those who love us.
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I used to go up to her house. She lived upstate [in New York] and I lived in Manhattan you're living in a lot of noise and my career was being built. For me to spend time with Nina [Simone] is to spend a lot of quiet time.
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I don't have a life-style, I have a life.
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I think that too many strangers were in her [Nina Simone's] life, and not enough people that she knew and loved.
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We are strong enough to stand tall tearlessly, we are brave enough to bend to cry, and we are sad enough to know that we must laugh again.
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I am of the generation of segregation. Black Lives Matter is post. I said today, and I will say all the time, If Nina [Simone] were here, she'd have her Black Lives Matter [T-shirt] on. I think they're great kids. They don't need me or anybody else to tell them what to do.
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I always loved English because whatever human beings are, we are storytellers. It is our stories that give a light to the future. When I went to college I became a history major because history is such a wonderful story of who we think we are. English is much more a story of who we really are.
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I do not understand why any poet or writer would run for office that's a different sense of who you are. I'm just a poet. I am as truthful as I can be. That makes me an artist. I heed the people I do not lead the people.
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I am a huge fan of the Black woman. I never hesitate to recommend her when times are bad or things go wrong.
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I am totally fascinated by people and our history as I understand and continue to explore it. People have so much to give and so far to go and yet we have given and gone a great distance. It's really just interesting to ask: why not? And see where that takes me.
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You must be unintimidated by your own thoughts.
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Rage is to writers what water is to fish.
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Iife/personality must be taken as a total entity. All of your life is all of your life, and no one incident stands alone.
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White people really deal more with God and black people with Jesus.
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I am proud of the hip hop generation. They are good business people and, actually, good people.
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If now isn't a good time for the truth I don't see when we'll get to it.
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The only advice [for new writers and poets] I can offer is to be yourself: not the self someone else wants you to be, but the self you are. Enjoy yourself and your life. But most of all travel and eat. That's how we learn.
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Now, everything I do, I do because I want to. And I believe the best is yet to come.
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It's not a ladder we're climbing, it's literature we're producing. . . . We cannot possibly leave it to history as a discipline nor to sociology nor science nor economics to tell the story of our people.
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